This is an old December pic – from 2007 to be exact. It’s from one of my favorite cemeteries in NM, it’s in Bernalillo,it’s right off of I-25. And below is a “reflected” view – this is one of the first things I played with in Photoshop back in 2000 – I loved flipping images and creating digital Rorschach tests.
and the most amazing things come up. I took this photo at the Harwood Museum in Taos earlier this year and posted about our trip there on my blog. Now this photo is on one of the artists website. With a photo credit. Kinda cool, kinda weird.
My favorite westside tree – it’s near the volcanoes. Making the clarification as my absolute favorite tree is on the Low Road to Taos right before you arrive in Taos. And one of my other favorite trees is actually right next door. It’s a pecan tree which reminds my of childhood in Lousiana – we grew up in a old pecan grove – I think at times my brother and I lived off pecans. I call it “Betty’s Tree” even though my neighbor, Betty, passed away before Katie was even born(god, is that possible, has so much time passed?).
One can never have too many favorite trees.
My boos posed for an impromptu photo session while jumping on our unmade bed. These two know how to pose for a picture!
To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.
- Andri Cauldwell
I’ve been working hard trying to get this blog/website up and functional. It’s been a long haul, and I have a way to go but I think I’ve got the bones of it ready. Today was a day of semi-rest – we watched a little football, visited my lovely friend Jill and her family for Thanksgiving, ate a monumental amount of food and sat by a fire watching the kids play an impromptu game of football. Aaaah, Thanksgiving bliss. I’m thinking we might go on a little roadtrip tomorrow – need to figure out a destination though – off to check out my NM travel books!
Hola, welcome to the new blog – I should stay parked here a while – consolidating my website and blog into one place to save some money. I’ll probably be using the raineworks doman as a website and keep this as the blog. We’ll see – I seem to be bloghopping a lot!
This lovely lady is my latest Familia de Burque piece. The building in the back is in Port Townsend, WA – I took it while I was attending Artfest two years ago. The title is “Crossing Over” and she seems to be crossing from one world to the next (Burque to Port Townsend, life to death, her reality to our reality) and she has the power lines crossing right through her.
I’ve been pondering my love affair with photography recently. I feel like I lost my way a bit – am I taking that photo because I think someone else will love it (ie. I can sell it) or because I love it? Sadly, it seems the answer has more often than not be the former instead of the latter. And it’s so telling when I go through the images later.
Part of this realization has been because I’ve been going through my photography archives, archiving, adding keywords, getting rid of the chaff – and I find myself loving my old work so much more than the 2009 stuff. And the old stuff is more photoshop-centric, creating surreal tableaus, bending and blending images into what I see in my head.
This image is from my trip to Artfest 2007. Two of my favorite images from that trip blended to capture how that trip made me feel.
Free
reaching
seeking
flexing
and
finding my true self
my inner voice
my interior visions
being brought into the light
that was a great trip
I participated in a year-long project with nine other artists that culminated into the 9×9x9 show that deputed on 9/9/09. We also did an 8×8x8 project last year to celebrate 8/8/08. An interested concept that worked out really well. Enjoy the video!
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